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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Elsevier-Health Sciences Division
ISBN-10
0721603491
ISBN-13
9780721603490
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102919488
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Success in Practical, Vocational Nursing : from Student to Leader
Subject
Nursing / Lpn & Lvn
Publication Year
2004
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Medical
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
7.5 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
5
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
610.73
Edition Description
Revised edition
Table Of Content
Unit One: Learning Skills for Critical Thinking 1. The Adult Learner 2. Personal Learning Style Preference 3. For the Organizationally Challenged 4. Learning and Retaining Information for Critical Thinking 5. Learning Resources for Student and Graduate 6. Critical Thinking for Clinical Competence Unit Two: Building Blocks for Your Career 7. How Practical/Vocational Nursing Evolved 8. Nursing Process: Your Role 9. Straightforward Communication 10. Personal Health Promotion Unit Three: Patients and Coworkers 11. Health Care Team 12. Cultural Uniqueness, Sensitivity, and Competence 13. Spiritual Needs, Spiritual Caring, and Religious Differences Unit Four: Leading and Managing Others 14. Assertiveness: Your Responsibility 15. Leadership Skills 16. LPN/LVN Charge Nurse Skills: Management, Including Assignment and Delegation Unit Five: Health Care Environment: Basic Elements 17. Health Care Settings 18. Health Care System: Financing, Issues, and Trends 19. Ethics Applied to Nursing 20. Nursing and the Law Unit Six: End and a New Beginning 21. Finding a Job 22. NCLEX-PN® Examination 23. How to Make Your Career Grow Appendices A. State Boards of Nursing B. NAPNES Standards of Practice for LP/VNs C. Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse D. Learning Exercises for the Organizationally Challenged (Chapter 3) E. Internet Resources F. The Howlett Style of Nursing Leadership G. Delegation Concepts and Decision-Making Process (NCSBN) Glossary References and Suggested Readings Answers to Chapter Review Questions (inside back cover)
Synopsis
Now part of the popular LPN Threads series, this market-leading text helps students develop the practical knowledge and problem-solving skills they need for a successful career as an LPN/LVN. It uses an engaging "1-2-3 approach" that describes what needs to be done in a situation as well as how to do it. Questions, quizzes, and self-assessments encourage active participation and critical thinking, while serving as practical and efficient aids to learning. Coverage of leadership and management has been substantially increased in this edition., Now part of the popular LPN Threads series, this market-leading text helps students develop the practical knowledge and problem-solving skills they need for a successful career as an LPN/LVN. It uses an engaging "1-2-3 approach" that describes what needs to be done in a situation as well as how to do it. Questions, quizzes, and self-assessments encourage active participation and critical thinking, while serving as practical and efficient aids to learning. Coverage of leadership and management has been substantially increased in this edition. Plentiful Critical Thinking Exercises encourage problem-solving for both academic and interpersonal situations. Learning Exercises related to chapter content challenge students to imagine, visualize, and think outside the box. A separate chapter on learning strategies for the adult student includes research on right-brain/left-brain learning and suggestions for time management. Leadership Activities and Management Tools provide practical instructions, resources, and opportunities to practice and apply leadership and management skills using a variety of methods. Leadership Hints and Management Hints offer helpful tips to follow and remember when in a leadership or management situation. Communication content explains three-way communication - verbal, nonverbal, and affective - and how all three ways of communicating can affect patient-nurse interactions. Up-to-date information on distance learning and the Internet as a component of returning education covers online resources, study groups, and computer-aided instruction and simulations. A chapter on the NCLEX-PN® Exam (Chapter 22) offers tips for taking the exam. Provides basic information on Nursing Interventions Classifications (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classifications (NOC), promoting awareness and recognition of how these nursing languages are used. Health care settings and costs of managed care are addressed, including current trends in employment opportunities for LPN/LVNs and career alternatives beyond the hospital setting. Full-color LPN Threads design - with objectives, key terms, key points, review questions, references and suggested readings, and more - makes this accessible, reader-friendly book even easier to use. NCLEX-PN Test Plan Comparison maps content from the text with the current test plan. A new chapter on Critical Thinking for Clinical Competence (chapter 6) addresses critical thinking as it applies to the LPN/LVN. A new chapter on Personal Health Promotion (chapter 10) discusses stress management and burnout, nutrition and exercise, the impaired nurse, and codependency. Material on ethics and legal issues has been separated into two chapters: Ethics Applied to Nursing (chapter 19) and Nursing and the Law (chapter 20). More cultural content discusses culturally diverse patients and the appropriate nursing responses, including added content on Islam. New information on the newly passed Medicare bill describes the many changes that affect health care and the older adult population., Now part of the popular LPN Threads series, this market-leading text helps students develop the practical knowledge and problem-solving skills they need for a successful career as an LPN/LVN. It uses an engaging "1-2-3 approach" that describes what needs to be done in a situation as well as how to do it. Questions, quizzes, and self-assessments encourage active participation and critical thinking, while serving as practical and efficient aids to learning. Coverage of leadership and management has been substantially increased in this edition. Plentiful Critical Thinking Exercises encourage problem-solving for both academic and interpersonal situations. Learning Exercises related to chapter content challenge students to imagine, visualize, and think outside the box. A separate chapter on learning strategies for the adult student includes research on right-brain/left-brain learning and suggestions for time management. Leadership Activities and Management Tools provide practical instructions, resources, and opportunities to practice and apply leadership and management skills using a variety of methods. Leadership Hints and Management Hints offer helpful tips to follow and remember when in a leadership or management situation. Communication content explains three-way communication - verbal, nonverbal, and affective - and how all three ways of communicating can affect patient-nurse interactions. Up-to-date information on distance learning and the Internet as a component of returning education covers online resources, study groups, and computer-aided instruction and simulations. A chapter on the NCLEX-PN(R) Exam (Chapter 22) offers tips for taking the exam. Provides basic information on Nursing Interventions Classifications (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classifications (NOC), promoting awareness and recognition of how these nursing languages are used. Health care settings and costs of managed care are addressed, including current trends in employment opportunities for LPN/LVNs and career alternatives beyond the hospital setting. Full-color LPN Threads design - with objectives, key terms, key points, review questions, references and suggested readings, and more - makes this accessible, reader-friendly book even easier to use. NCLEX-PN Test Plan Comparison maps content from the text with the current test plan. A new chapter on Critical Thinking for Clinical Competence (chapter 6) addresses critical thinking as it applies to the LPN/LVN. A new chapter on Personal Health Promotion (chapter 10) discusses stress management and burnout, nutrition and exercise, the impaired nurse, and codependency. Material on ethics and legal issues has been separated into two chapters: Ethics Applied to Nursing (chapter 19) and Nursing and the Law (chapter 20). More cultural content discusses culturally diverse patients and the appropriate nursing responses, including added content on Islam. New information on the newly passed Medicare bill describes the many changes that affect health care and the older adult population.
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